Daniel Swift
Daniel Swift teaches at the New College of the Humanities in London. His first book, Bomber County, was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Guardian First Book award, and his essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the New Statesman, and Harper’s.
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The Bughouse
Daniel Swift
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In 1945, the American poet Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for his broadcasts in Fascist Italy during the Second World War.
Before the trial could take place, however, he was...
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The Heart Is Strange
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
John Berryman was perhaps the most idiosyncratic American poet of the twentieth century. Best known for the painfully sad and raucously funny cycle of Dream Songs, he wrote passionately: of love...
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The Dream Songs
FSG Classics
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The complete Dream Songs-hypnotic, seductive, masterful-as thrilling to read now as they ever were
John Berryman's Dream Songs are perhaps the funniest,...
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77 Dream Songs
FSG Classics
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A wild, masterful Pulitzer Prize-winning cycle of poems that half a century later still shocks and astounds
John Berryman was hardly unknown when he published 77 Dream Songs, but...
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Berryman's Sonnets
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A brilliant and fiercely pitched sonnet cycle about love: at once passionate, forbidden, and doomed
John Berryman was an unconventional poet, but he must have surprised even himself...
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Bomber County
Daniel Swift
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In early June 1943, James Eric Swift, a pilot with the 83rd Squadron of the Royal Air Force, boarded his Lancaster bomber for a night raid on Münster and disappeared. Widespread aerial bombardment...
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